Capros aper
Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaprosPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
9 occurrences of Capros aper on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
9 occurrences- Miocene44%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene16%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Capros aper has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Maurolicus muelleri9 sites
- Gadiculus7 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi6 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis6 sites
- Trachurus6 sites
- Boops5 sites
- Centriscus5 sites
- Micromesistius poutassou5 sites
- Solea5 sites
- Syngnathus5 sites
- Arnoglossus sauvagei4 sites
- Engraulis4 sites
- Etrumeus4 sites
- Lestidiops4 sites
- Sardina pilchardus4 sites
- Alutera3 sites
- Arnoglossus laterna3 sites
- Belone3 sites
- Dactylopterus3 sites
- Diaphus edwardsi3 sites
- Gobius xiphurus3 sites
- Hygophum3 sites
- Hyporhamphus3 sites
- Lampanyctus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Capros aper, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy3
- Messinian marine fish communities of the Mediterranean Sea3
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie2
- Biogeographic and palaeoclimatic relationships of the Middle Pliocene ichthyofauna of the Samoggia Torrent (Bologna, Italy)1
Each of the 9 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Capros aper
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hans Hillewaert
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Capros aper was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCapros through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacepede 1921